Re: GNOME Foundation Board Meeting Minutes :: 7/6/07

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Luis Villa">

> Of course, I'd be more comfortable with it if we put out a press release
> saying something to the effect of 'we see no way to avoid implementing
> OOXML without screwing our users, so we're joining ECMA to make sure it
> sucks as little as possible. All other things being equal, we'd much
> prefer to implement a spec that has a much better patent grant, was
> developed through a more public process, uses open standards like mathml,
> etc., but since MS has a dominant market position, we don't have much of a
> choice in the matter.'

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